This is often the case with periodicals. I think it's more to do with the costs involved in shipping items larger or bulkier than the actual magazine - including the odd free roll of film on the cover.
>A couple of months ago I decided to subscribe to Practical Photography. >Rang up the subscriptions department, quoting the ref number they give in >the mag. Subscriptions dept quoted me a dearer price for 12 issues and said >they didn't send the gifts outside of the UK - even though there is NO >mention of this in the mag. Cost is certainly an issue (d'oh!) with me. I subscribed to AP during an promotional offer and the cost worked out to about 69 quid a year (I live in England), where the normal UK subs rate is 94 quid. (Sorry, 'quid' = GBPounds) I certainly would not subscribe to a paper-based production, even weekly, if the cost were the other side of a hundred pounds. There's too much information, quicker, accessed on the net to warrant that. But I might spend that much (and more) if I were living somewhere like India. Then again, I might try setting up my own magazine! >>They ship abroad, rates to 'Middle-East' are �118 per year (51 issues) >>and to 'Far East' are �138. India might scrape into 'Middle' ?? Call +44 >>(0) 1444 475675 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for info regarding payment. >>Hey I should get a finder's fee! Paper magazines are in decline. I used to subscribe to 'MacWorld', a monthly costing about 3 or 4 quid an issue. Being monthly, all the news in it was out of date by up to 6 weeks (publishing a monthly means 'putting to bed' so early that any news is stale by the time you read it. Okay, features and how-to's are always worth a look, but other than that, it just wasn't worth it. Online websites provide up-to-the-minute news and response, at little cost to the reader. However, at the moment, there's still nothing like rolling up a well-thumbed issue of something like AP and stuffin it in yer back pocket for a quick nosy in the cafe. At least, not until we have pliable, roll-up PDA's (stuffed in a pocket) that connect up wirelessly for email and net. Then the paper mags will have a real fright... _______________________________________________________ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads www.macads.co.uk - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
